> No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and > poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000 > processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark" > that starts and stops 10,000 threads and Windows will beat Linux > hands-down (if it's not still running the process benchmark...).
Ummmm.... out of curiosity, Why / how does windows beat Linux ? Is it technically very difficult / impossible to have an OS that does processes and threads very fast or has Linux CHOSEN to give more importance to processes than to threads and why ? Thanx Shri